Retail Insights Blog - Management One Inventory Planning

Based on advisor conversations across our client community, October 1 – November 4, 2026 +4.2% median community sales YoY, up from September's +2.7% (restated on the same basis) If it won't sell by Christmas, don't take delivery in December. Cancel it, push it, or return it. Now live SKU-level vendor and top-seller reporting in Retail ORBIT® for Sho...

— Marc Weiss, CEO, Management One

AI is an engine. Humans provide wisdom.

I believe that, and I believe it takes two things to be true for it to work. First, the people need experience, skill, and knowledge. Second, the AI needs data that is accurate and matches the use cases it is called on to answer. Take away eit...

You know your credit score. You probably know your blood pressure, or at least your doctor does. Yet many retailers run a business with hundreds of thousands, sometimes millions, of dollars flowing through it and cannot say in one honest sentence...

The holiday season is not one long stretch. It is a series of bursts: now through Thanksgiving, Black Friday, and then Christmas. Each one asks something different of your business, and the levers you pull in each one add up to how you finish the year.

The levers you control

Constant remerchandising of the floor. A floor that l...